Frankfurt / DPA Germany is slowly bringing home its gold, lodged outside the country in vaults in New York, Paris and London during the years of the Cold War. Germany’s central bank possesses the second-biggest hoard of gold bars in the world, and conspiracy theories have multiplied over the years, based around the fact that only a tiny number of …

Gallipoli / AFP Italian olive grower Federico Manni is at the end of his tether. “You see this one,” he says, waving in the direction of a majestic but diseased olive tree on his property near Gallipoli on the Salento peninsula on Italy’s heel. “It is over one thousand years old. Fires and wars failed to kill it, but that’s …

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